Articles by Niall Browne

The Mayhem Film Festival will be back in 2019. The Nottingham-based genre film festival will return to Broadway Cinema from 10 to 13 October 2019. So clear your diary, make your plans and get ready to embrace some of the strangest movies [...]

Last year Movies In Focus had the opportunity to view S. Craig Zahler’s beautifully bleak Dragged Across Concrete. The thriller stars Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn as a pair of cops who are suspended after roughing up a suspect. In order to make [...]

Hot on the heels of the great looking (but spoiler filled) trailer for Netflix’s Ben Affleck-led thriller Triple Frontier, comes the first look at the streaming services’ The Highwaymen. Toplined by Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson [...]

On 29 February 2012, a week-old Movies In Focus published news announcing the death of The Monkees singer Davy Jones. Now almost exactly 7 years later I’m reporting that his bandmate Peter Tork has also died. 77 year old Tork was the bassist [...]

Damien Chazelle’s First Man is an exceptionally well crafted bit of cinema. The Whiplash and La La Land director has delivered a rich and textured Neil Armstrong film, which looks and feels like it was ripped out the the 1960s. First Man [...]

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest and most influential directors of our time, his CV spanning an incredible array of iconic and unforgettable films such as Jaws, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List to name but a few. To celebrate the 25th [...]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s epic 1973 science fiction television film, World On A Wire still packs an impressive gut punch 50 years after it first hit the screen. Fassbinder’s neo-noir is a precursor to The Matrix, a film which blends [...]

Produced by Guillermo del Toro, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, is a horror anthology movie aimed at kids. I imagine it’s sort of a gateway drug to hook kids into the horror genre. This looks to have the look and feel of an [...]

Vampire films have been around for decades and nearly every angle has been explored in an attempt to breathe new life into the undead horror sub-genre. However, director Jimmy Dean has managed to craft a fresh take in his short film, V. The 10 [...]

Update: The Academy has now back-tracked the below decision and awards for all categories will be given out live when the show airs on 24 February. Here’s the official statement: ”The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership [...]

Who would have believed that James Wan’s Aquaman would gross over $328 million at the US box-office and more than $1.21 billion globally? Not you and not me. Well, the Jason Momoa superhero adventure is heading to home entertainment formats [...]